A complete and unadulterated dump of what was being talked about,
I hope I got the right names and people, comment if anything out
of sorts here, the Forge links talked about are here:
http://forge.mysql.com/wiki/Contributing
The BoF session was hosted by Lenz Grimmer and Tomas Ulin of
MySQL
MySQL Community contributor BoF. About 15 people.
Lenz: Trying to open up, make internal processes trasnsparent,
make discussions public, how does code evolve, reviewed etc
before release. Lenz shows the "golden rules"
transparency - what's going to happen, how it will be accepted,
make it clear to the contributor.
dialog - Lenz admits many patches during the review over the last
few months haven't even been acknowledged and are going through
the backlog to discover whether any dialog has been done wven if
it is to …
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